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James T. Townsend Lab
Department of Psychology 
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General Goals: Development of general mathematical theory and methodologies for human perception and cognition: 1. Stochastic processes, probability theory, and mathematical statistics 2. Differential geometry and topology 3. Linear & nonlinear dynamic system theory Major Areas of Investigation: Cognitive psychology and psychophysics including: 1. Visual pattern perception and signal detection 2. Face perception 3. Configurality and gestalt perception vs. separable and independent dimensions and features 4. Human decision and planning behavior 5. Short-term memory and visual search Ongoing Collaborations: Cognitive Science: Development and application of mathematical modeling tools to research in cognition and perception 1. Decision Making
2. Gestalt Processing
3. Perception and Psychophysics
4. Geometric Models
Clinical Science: Development and application of mathematical models to clinical research phenomena 1. Schizophrenia
2. Autism Spectrum Disorders
3. General methodological approaches to clinical science
4. Information Processing Deficits in various populations, such as social information processing deficits in sex offenders
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31 March 2010
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